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The post - Newtonian rotation of Earth: a first approach*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 August 2017

J. Schastok ,
M. Soffel ,
H. Ruder  and
M. Schneider
J. Schastok
Affiliation:
Lehrstuhl für Theor. Astrophysik, Auf der Morgenstelle 12, D-7400 Tübingen, FRG
M. Soffel
Affiliation:
Lehrstuhl für Theor. Astrophysik, Auf der Morgenstelle 12, D-7400 Tübingen, FRG SFB78 Satellitengeodäsie, Technische Universität München, D-8000 München, FRG
H. Ruder
Affiliation:
Lehrstuhl für Theor. Astrophysik, Auf der Morgenstelle 12, D-7400 Tübingen, FRG
M. Schneider
Affiliation:
SFB78 Satellitengeodäsie, Technische Universität München, D-8000 München, FRG

Abstract

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The problems of dynamics of extended bodies in metric theories of gravity are reviewed. In a first approach towards the relativistic description of the Earth's rotational motion the post - Newtonian treatment of the free precession of a pseudo - rigid and axially symmetric model Earth is presented. Definitions of angular momentum, pseudo - rigidity, the corotating frame, tensor of inertia and axial symmetry of the rotating body are based upon the choice of the standard post - Newtonian (PN) coordinates and the full PN energy momentum complex. In this framework, the relation between angular momentum and angular (coordinate) velocity is obtained. Since the PN Euler equations for the angular velocity here formally take their usual Newtonian form it is concluded that apart from PN modifications (renormalizations) of the inertia tensor, the rotational motion of our pseudo - rigid and axially symmetric model Earth essentially is “Newtonian”.

Type
V. Precession & Nutation
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 128: Earth's Rotation and Reference Frames for Geodesy and Geodynamics , 1988 , pp. 341 - 347
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1988 

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